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Collection of short verses
Tanka-Haiku-Zen-Senryu
36 pages
By Jan Oskar Hansen
Tanka
Rain has abated
A man under an awing
Counts falling raindrops
He has little else to do
He stopped smoking last night
Fiddles with a lighter
Clicks it on and off forever
Giggles to himself
Kicks in a sweetshop window
Grabs a handful of all sorts
Tanka
New Moon
Storm was throwing love about
Impossible night
Yet, she said she loved me
Who needs moon light now?
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Senryu
Endless rain
We sit indoors
Learning to know each other
Candlelight
Electricity gone
She is beautiful tonight
.
Dawn
Rain falls softlyAs not too wake us too early
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Tanka
Olympic Games
In Indias capital city
Nils left to chance
The poor, crippled and beggars
Are swept out of the city
New Delhi
High rise flats, middle class
India on display
The shining face of modernity
But need is a hidden menace
Tanka
If I were a chicken
I would love to live in Swiss
Protected by law
You have to kill me quickly
Before grilling me.
If I were a seal
I would like the open sea
Shun hunters on ice
Who would only sell my skin
To the rich ladies of Swiss.
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Senryu
Today
I see what was best for me
Yesterday
Today
I see whats best for me,
Tomorrow
Today?How Im supposed to know?
Its still early day
Tanka
Time has altered
After the quack In Chile
Seven oclock is late
It only arrives near eight
And we get to live longer
Senryu
Death is not the foe
It is a columniation of livingSea of nothingness
Forever is a word
Too awesome for one to grasp
It has no horizon
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senryu
The worried man
Was so very fortunate
Died before doomsday
Peace in our Time?
From coliseums of our days
Fans scream for blood.
AfghanistanWhen bombs has creates wasteland
Then we call it peace.
Tanka
When the masses shriek
A soldiers silence stands out
He loves his enemy
Knows of his fear and courage
They are true brothers in arms
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Tanka
When Obama met Lama
Tennis players met in Dubai
China refused to play
When Hamas lost the first match
The winners hurriedly left.
Tanka
Moral nihilism is
Punishing a whole people
Celebrate injustice
Blind to victims sufferingVictory without valor.
Senryu
She looks kissed
Has been eating strawberries
Night is closing in
Her love long fallow
An old man smiled broadly
Now shes his nurse
He cheated the rich
They sent him to jail forever
So mind whom you rob
Senryu
Now that Im old
I welcome every new day
But I still hate rain
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Tanka
The last man on earth
When the night sky is inky
Will die screaming
His cry will freeze the oceans
And its echo rent the sky
Tanka
Never been to Prague
Not seen the Kafka statue
And it makes me sad
I have been to East Germany
It broke my socialist heart
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Tanka
Four small horned kids
Plays in my neighbours garden
The nanny is wary
She knows I think of mint sauce
And the aroma of roasted meat.
Tanka
My aim is modest
Driver of a ten ton truck
A king of the road
Loudly blare, scare you rigid
Get out of my way amateur.
Haiku
Rain takes a break
Jaded by its own languor
White clouds and sunlight
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Senryu
Once ardour is ember
Out of the ashes flies
The bird of friendship
Tanka
Accept old age
The smug tellers of lies say
Accord is mortal
The smug think they are undying
Liars fear the truth
Senryu
In the minds mere
Tiny, silvery fishes swim
Called senryu
Senryu
Poor Barack Obama
One year as US president
And he tows the line
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Tanka
As the world heats up
Surveillance will be easier
Naked and vulnerable
In a line stretching for miles
We wait to be castigated
Tanka
Airport humiliation
Standing there without shoes
And holes in socks
Belt, wallet, coins in a box
Me! I rather take the train
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Senryu
Red plastic roses
Faded sepia by neglect
Melancholic bouquet
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Red plastic noses
For us to look at and laugh
Sad is the joker
The gloomy guy
At the traveling circus
Is its funny clown
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Haiku
Torn old diary
Thrown hotly into the bin
Tells of broken love
The old diary
Modest amongst bigger books
Keeps my many dreams
Brown old diary
Coldly exposes my sappiness
Leaves me mortified
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Haiku
Algarvian rain
Falls mainly in opaque nights
When moggy kills mice
On cold winter days
When sky is icy sapphire
Suns a jaded eye
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November still day
Peaceful chimney smoke shimmer
Fox spoors on new snow
Haiku
Compass pointing south,
I migrate, follow the sun,
But my heart looks north. .
At twilight,
I shot a raven
Night fell down.
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Tanka
The seashell I found
On the people empty beach
I cant listen to
If the sirens calls my name
I will drown in her embrace
Tanka
Ashes on the sea
A showy and mean gesture
From earth to earth
Let me fertilize a tree,
Say, a flowering almond tree.
Painted the floor green
Sit in a corner and wait
Quick drying paint
Four hour it says on the can
Where I sit its a life time.
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Senryu
Epiphany me now
With your enchanted smile
The forever Ill see.
Tanka
Lucid as the day
Blinding sunlight obscured you
When I could see
The night had devoured you
Into a cloudy haziness
Tanka
Mirror in the hall
Dont sarcastically laugh
When I walk past
On my way to the kitchen
To eat another strawberry tart
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Tanka
There was a time
When the famous kept leopards
As an accessory
Now they keep an orphanage
Of colourful children
Senryu
God doesnt do email
Hand delivered post only
Stamps not needed.
Lucky butterfly
It doesnt look like a gnat
And get whacked.
Tanka
I wake up early
Think the new days lovelier
Than the one before
Sit up and recklessly laugh
Its my bonhomie you see.
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Tanka
Woke up cheerful
And I greatly worried why
Till the sense ended
And I was my grumpy self
Happiness is frivolous
Tanka (x-mass warning)
Santa brought us gifts
He had jolly good dram too
Claus was arrested
Didnt drive his reindeers though
But crashed uncles old Volvo
Haiku
Echo of a phone
Ringing in another room
Rays of light and dust.
Buried her yesterday
My room is full of silence
Dog hair on the floor
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Senryu
Stillness is
The flapping of wings
In the forest
Stillness is
The falling of a leaf
In October
Senryu
Morning zephyr
Flapping kitchen curtains
Aroma of coffee
A grizzled donkey
Under a big carob tree
Makes it pretty.
In a dead rabbits eyes
I saw the vast empty sky
Unmoved and godless
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Senryu
A smile from you
Erases the cosmic loneliness
Of icy stars
Tanka.
Talk to the net
Listen to the faint echo,
Of virtual droning,
The unspoken loneliness,
Of dreamers caught in a void.
Tanka.
I have traveled long
Blessed by Gobis new moon
Bit by scorpions
Seen tall ships sail up said down
Yet, found my way back home
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Tanka.
I have voyaged long
Sailed across seven seas
Canoed great rivers
Humiliated by the infamous
This I did and you married Fred!
Zen
Icy morning
Frost on window
Back to bed
Haiku
Indian summer,
Is an actor who wont share
Limelight with autumn.
Senryu
Mighty flood
Ocean is your destiny
Deadly her embrace
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Zen
Sad sight
Is a butterfly
Not prepared
For winter.
Senryu
The kitchen clock
Ticks slow in December
Too fast in May
Air freshener
Perfumed chemicals
In spray cans
Haiku
On a sunny wall
Bluebottles hum and feel safe
Spiders like the dark.
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Haiku
Rocks in the lake
Are older than the blue mountain
Petrified stars?
Senryu
When mother moon
Illuminates birch trees
Tears of silver fall
Senryu
When the Amazon
Meets the ocean
Its but a tear drop
Senryu
Beautiful ocean
Infuriated frothy green
Buckles iron ship
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Senryu
Tedious ocean
Lacklustre mirror the sky
No wind in sails
Banal ocean
Shimmering carpet of gold
Jumping dolphins.
Haiku.
The ephemeral
Frost roses on my window
January morning
Forced silence is
A hushed scream of despair
At a funereal
Mourners tanned faces
Paled by the open grave
Beads on worried brows
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Senryu
They sang and cried
Then walked out into the sun
Leaving me alone.
Mourners sit in pubs
For once I had their attention
Now they drink beer.
Senryu
Its been said before:
At night colours hibernate
Yet, tulips are black
Only deer can hear
How wild flowers scream
When uprooted.
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senryu
KashmirCannons splinter rocksOn high mountain topsFrost kills soldiers.
GuiltLinked embryos
Carries a nuns silver crossShe bears our sin.
Image
Grim is povertyThe rich find it colourful
When seen on film.
Class
I shed the shacklesOf the working class slumsFree now to dream.
Love
After tantrums she laughs
Cooks me a curried chicken
Im often hungry.
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Senryu
The electric fan
scornfully circulate warm air
throws it in my face.
Todays oppressive heat
will be a winter days dream
Of a summer gone.
A dazzling woman
Deserves a beautiful poem
After shes forty.
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An ugly woman
Deserves a dazzling poem
Every morning.
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Senryu
The transitory
Saw and touched her yesterday
Now I need a spade.
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Tremulous anguish
Morning after a long night
No beer in fridge.
Curtained windows
Tremors and spilling coffee
Phone ceaselessly rings.
.
Outside my door
The nice couple from AA
Test their friendly smiles.
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Senryu
The angry ocean
Left its irate foam behind
Haiku
Auburn leaf
Rustling along night streets
Whispering regrets
Senryu
In a mythic glade
Crane and vixen danced
Mortal tango.
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Senryu
Night rain fell
Softly as lovers whispers
At dawn
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Lone streetlamp
The only witness to snowflakes
Falling gently
Sea mist came
White as a coat of silence
And nirvana sighed
From an ash tree
Excess moonlight dripped
A treasure trove
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Senryu
On the fenland
Escaped sunbeam danced
Late at night
Zen
Spun wishes
Make new day
Zen
A cock
That crew early
Loses its head
Senryu
When one talk
Another must listen
Let it not be me
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Senryu
Murmur from the East
We ignored to our peril
Now it is a scream
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The thunder afar
Is not inclement weather
But exploding bombs
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Body part drizzle
When eager children pick up
Toys dropped from planes
Mans born to evil
Isnt it a miracle then
That goodness exists ?
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Haiku
Inconceivable
That rain will fall, sun shine
Without you around
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When yesterday goes
A galactic star gives birth
To the morrow
Lost hopes
Recuperate in moonlight
Sparkle at daybreak
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Melancholy too
When in auroras bosom
Smiles at destiny
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Haiku
When rain falls at night
Parched soil is grateful
The sun is a thief
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Hushed moonlight
Shines on a forest lake
False dawn?
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Deliciously
With her I pass the night
Till aurora smiles
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In dawns light
Flowers open petals
Collect fecundity
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Haiku/senryu
Dawns melancholy
Dissolves in the brilliance
Of suns bright smile
Hushed afternoon
Cold wind has blown us indoors
Sorrow has returned
Oak leaves drown
In my gardens ornate pond
Dignified grief
This I didnt know
The power a white pearl has
To transform a cornea
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Senryu/Haiku
Blank is her facewhen
Thinking of its lost beauty
Submerged by sadness
On the villages pond
Silvery on sunless days
Float forgotten sunrays
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The mountain lake
When kissed by the breeze
Trembles delighted
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Only the black swan
In the mystic forest tarn
Knows where my car is
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Senryu/ Haiku
Tropical lagoon
Clear as Portuguese vino-verde
Is soberly calm
Does spring offensive
Mean procreation and bird-song
Or war?
Morning Zephyr
Flapping kitchen curtain
Aroma of coffee
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Field ploughing tractors
Red soil and shrieking birds
Horse empty landscape
A grizzled donkey
Under a big carob tree
Makes it pretty
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